Aegyptus: a free font available from the Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts site. Not only does it have an extensive collection of hieroglyphs, it also contains Coptic, Meroitic, hieratic and transliteration alphabets

LaserHieroglyph: a professional, high quality font, including a cartouche-building facility. It's expensive ($149, which is about £100) but worth every penny

New Athena Unicode: Although primarily an ancient Greek font, it has a comprehensive set of Egyptian transliteration and Coptic glyphs. It's also free and fully licensed. It's been created by academics for academics

The Signwriter: a collection of free software tools for the Egyptian language, including a hieroglyph editor and dictionary

Vector Office: another hieroglyph editor, but is vector-based (instead of pixel). There is a pro version too, which opens up many more functions, such as editing signs and customising hatchings

Texts, text databases and hieroglyphic transcriptionsSome of these sites are not language-specific; however, as open-access repositories, they will have copies of digitised books containing inscriptions etc.

Ancient Egyptian Astronomy: a site containing information about astronomical documents from ancient Egypt. It's still a work-in-progress, but seems to be gathering momentum

The Deir el-Medina Database: a database of all textual objects found at the site. Here you can find information such as provenance, physical dimensions and descriptions

The Oriental Institute: part the University of Chicago, the Oriental Institute has all their publications free to download from their website. Some of these are language-related, as well as all their numerous epigraphic surveys of temples such as Medinet Habu

The Pyramid Texts Online: as the title might suggest, you can find photos of the texts and translations of the Pyramid Texts (funerary texts) from the pyramid of Unas. There are also some useful vocab lists on the study page here

Tombes de Deir el Medina: part of the IFAO site, this database contains photographs from tombs at the workmen's village, some of which are good closeups of texts

Egyptian Hieroglyphs: run by an Egyptology graduate student, Egyptian Hieroglyphs has some introductory hieroglyph lessons to get you started. It also has a handy tutorial for using the JSesh hieroglyph editor

Middle Egyptian dictionary: created by Mark Vygus, this dictionary is free online and is ordered by Gardiner's sign list, not alphabetically (link opens a pdf)